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The Benito Bowl was a Line Drawn in Public

The Benito Bowl was not just a half time show. It was a deliberate cultural statement that forced the United States to confront whose stories are allowed on America’s biggest stages and whose presence still makes people uncomfortable.
February 17, 2026
Allan Polendey Dumlao
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Pro choice protest sign.

Community Partnerships and Transformative Legislature: The Route to Equitable Abortion Access

February 13, 2024
Charlotte Celikyol
It has been nearly one and a half years since Roe V. Wade was overturned by Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...
Social Justice
Solano State prison entrance

This Date in UCSF History: Abuses Told About Experiments on Prisoners

February 13, 2024
Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on February 17, 1977.] Inmates of California’s prison system are currently being used as subjects for...
Social Justice
Shelf of old textbooks.

Decolonizing Global Health: The Urgent Need for Diverse Authorship

January 30, 2024
Maddie Wong
Originally a method through which European colonizers exerted power over the colonized, the field of global health has taken different...
Social Justice
Woman holding a pill.

Women and Pain: A Case for Compassion in Medicine

January 23, 2024
Sara Malakzay
Countless women are often told the pain will be “just a pinch” on the day of their Inter-Uterine Device (IUD)...
Social Justice
One of the unwitting human test subjects of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

This Date in UCSF History: Whistleblower Describes Tragic ‘Study’

January 23, 2024
Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on Jan. 20, 1994.] In a Jan. 12 talk at UCSF, Peter Buxton described his efforts...
Social Justice
Men holding sign opposing violence against women.

This Date in UCSF History: Men Should Own Up to ‘Women’s Issues,’ Says Former Pro Athlete

December 19, 2023
Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on December 19, 2003.] Why is the greatest insult one can hurl at a boy is...
Social Justice
Two Chinese dissident students circa 1989.

This Date in UCSF History: Students Granted Political Asylum

October 24, 2023
Synapse
[First published in synapse on October 22, 1989] Two Chinese dissident students, Hoy Yu Vi, 27, and Luo Jian Guang...
Social Justice
Woman with megaphone and fist in air.

Unfairly Adjudicated: Onward We March

October 3, 2023
Woodger Faugas
We’re not destined for defeat; thus is the song of our warriors! Proud in our minority skins, such is a...
Social Justice
Illustration of a person with back pain.

Increasing Access Through Telehealth: A Call to Action

October 3, 2023
Maggie Brown
The alarm rings: its 5am, and a new day begins But I’ve already been awake from the pain in my...
Social Justice
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